- #1 Startup Company
97% matchVery Positive81% of 6,224 reviews2020
Dev: Hovgaard Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 19.6 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Startup Company is a business simulation sandbox game where you’re the CEO of a new company. Your job is to build your very own website and compete against the largest tech giants on the planet!
Why similar: Management 28.3%, Economy 25.1%, Simulation 10.6%, Building 8.6%, Sandbox 8%
Why You'll Like It: Manage your own software company, build offices, hire employees, and dominate the tech market much like in Good Company.
- #2 Little Big Workshop
96% matchVery Positive84% of 3,399 reviews2019
Dev: Mirage Game StudiosPub: THQ Nordic Mobile
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Manage your workers, stations, machines and create awesome stuff as your little big workshop grows into your dream factory!
Why similar: Automation 14.5%, Management 12.5%, Economy 11.8%, Building 11.6%, Resource Management 10.4%
Why You'll Like It: Direct workers and manage a tabletop factory to fulfill custom orders with a heavy focus on production layouts.
- #3 Production Line : Car factory simulation
96% matchVery Positive82% of 3,484 reviews2019
Dev: Positech Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Production line is the new car factory management/simulation/tycoon game that pushes your organisational and entrepreneurship skills to the limit. Can you build the ultimate optimised, free-flowing car production line whilst beating the competition and still turn a profit?
Why similar: Automation 15.5%, Management 13.5%, Economy 12.8%, Building 9.9%, Base Building 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: Design and optimize a massive car manufacturing assembly line to maximize efficiency and profit.
- #4 Factory Town
95% matchVery Positive91% of 4,486 reviews2021
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 13.9 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Build, automate, and optimize a giant factory on 3D terrain using conveyor belts, trains, chutes, pipes, and airships. Sell your goods to nearby villages to expand their borders, increase happiness, and unlock even better technology!
Why similar: Automation 18%, Base Building 12.9%, City Builder 10.5%, Resource Management 10%, Sandbox 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: Combine logistics, automation, and town-building to create a smoothly running economic machine.
- #5 Software Inc.
94% matchVery Positive94% of 7,850 reviews2015
Dev: Coredumping
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 13.8 hrsMean: 46.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Construct and design buildings for optimal working conditions. Hire people to design and release software, so you can defeat the simulated competition and take over their businesses. Manage and educate your employees to make sure they are skilled and satisfied with their job.
Why similar: Economy 16.2%, Automation 13.6%, Management 12.8%, Building 12.7%, Sandbox 10.4%
Why You'll Like It: Build, design, and manage a software development business with deep employee and infrastructure management.
- #6 Captain of Industry
94% matchVery Positive90% of 11,659 reviews2022
Dev: MaFi Games
Windows
Median: 10.3 hrsMean: 85.6 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Build an industrial empire on a remote island. Mine resources, reshape terrain with excavators, grow food, construct factories, lay train tracks, and trade with the outside world. Research 100+ technologies to advance from basic metal smelting all the way to nuclear power and space flight.
Why similar: Automation 24.4%, Base Building 15.8%, Resource Management 13.9%, Economy 12.1%, Management 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: Manage resources, build complex industrial supply chains, and run a thriving colony from the ground up.
- #7 Smart Factory Tycoon
93% matchMixed60% of 941 reviews2022
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 60%
Smart Factory Tycoon inspired by Little Big Workshop is a tycoon management game about running your dream factory with robots. Design your dream factory, plan all steps of production, research new technologies and become a tycoon!
Why similar: Base Building 12.4%, Resource Management 10.8%, City Builder 10.4%, Management 10.3%, Building 9%
Why You'll Like It: Design and run the ultimate automated factory using robots and advanced production lines.
- #8 Rise of Industry
92% matchMostly Positive73% of 4,197 reviews2019
Dev: Dapper Penguin StudiosPub: Kasedo Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Put your entrepreneurial skills to the test in the first title in the ROI series as you create & optimise intricate production lines. As an early 20th-Century industrialist, grow your empire & adapt to an ever-changing business landscape with unexpected events that could lead to boom…or bust.
Why similar: Economy 16.5%, Management 13.6%, City Builder 13.3%, Resource Management 10.1%, Base Building 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: Build and manage your own industrial empire, establishing supply chains and managing logistics in a simulated world.
- #9 Automation Empire
91% matchMixed66% of 2,646 reviews2019
Dev: DOG HOGGLER
Windows
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 19.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Build and manage a massive industrial network of factories, mines, and farms. Employ a fleet of trains, trucks, and robotic drones. In the age of automation, efficiency is survival!
Why similar: Automation 19.5%, Base Building 13%, Economy 9.8%, Building 8.9%, Sandbox 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: Construct complex networks of automated machinery to mine resources and manufacture goods.
- #10 FOUNDRY
90% matchVery Positive81% of 3,960 reviews2024
Dev: Channel 3 EntertainmentPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 48.8 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Build a sophisticated robot factory optimized to perfection in an infinite voxel world. Mine and harvest resources, automate your production lines and manage complex systems while researching your way to become the galaxy’s leading robotics megacorp.
Why similar: Automation 15.1%, Base Building 11.3%, Building 9.4%, Robots 9.3%, Online Co-Op 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: Build and automate a massive factory in a blocky, voxel-based open world.
- #11 The Colonists
91% matchVery Positive86% of 1,242 reviews2018
Dev: CodebyfirePub: Mode 7
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 11.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Build a new home for your team of robots as they begin a new life for themselves on a distant planet where they can fulfil their ultimate dream: to be human.
Why similar: Automation 15.5%, Economy 11.9%, City Builder 11.5%, Building 9.7%, Base Building 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: Guide a team of cute robots in building a settlement with fully automated transportation and production systems.
- #12 Techtonica
89% matchMixed65% of 3,273 reviews2024
Dev: Fire Hose Games
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 17.4 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Techtonica is a first-person factory automation game with a gripping mystery about mining your way out from the depths of an alien planet. Explore bioluminescent caves, mold destructible terrain, construct a massive subterranean factory. Dig your way toward answers & discover the secrets of Calyx.
Why similar: Automation 16.7%, Base Building 10.9%, Building 9.6%, Online Co-Op 8.6%, City Builder 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: Delve deep into an alien planet's subsurface to mine, build, and automate colossal factory complexes.
- #13 InfraSpace
89% matchMostly Positive80% of 1,968 reviews2023
Dev: Dionic Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 21.3 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Create an extrasolar efficiency utopia from scratch! In this sci-fi city builder you need to start mining operations, plan production, and lay down transportation routes to ensure a smooth supply chain.
Why similar: Automation 17%, City Builder 12.7%, Economy 11.9%, Building 9.9%, Resource Management 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: Build a massive futuristic city while managing complex traffic and transportation networks.
- #14 AutoForge
88% matchVery Positive87% of 467 reviews2024
Dev: Siege Games
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 11.4 hrs≥1hr: 69%
A 2D automation sandbox adventure. Build an automated factory with Mana-powered machines, progress through an expansive tech tree, explore a vast and wonderful world, upgrade yourself with ancient technologies, and defend it all from invasions.
Why similar: Automation 15.2%, Base Building 11.1%, Building 9.4%, Online Co-Op 9%, Resource Management 9%
Why You'll Like It: Combine automation, base-building, and resource management to create a thriving industrial operation.
- #15 Learning Factory
86% matchVery Positive86% of 523 reviews2025
Dev: Luden.io
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 9.5 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Build a factory for the galaxy's pickiest customers: cats. Automate production, route goods and cats to your stores, and grow across surface and underground layers. Experiment with machine learning to improve your business, with no enemies to interrupt your plans.
Why similar: Automation 18.5%, Economy 13.9%, Base Building 13.5%, Resource Management 10.7%, Management 10.3%
Why You'll Like It: Design a cat-run factory to study feline psychology and optimize production lines.
- #16 Kubifaktorium
87% matchVery Positive81% of 800 reviews2021
Dev: Neomateria Games GmbH
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 61%
Build, manage and grow a thriving colony in Kubifaktorium. The game features different biomes to explore, plenty of resources to exploit, complex machinery to build and interesting production chains to master.
Why similar: Automation 18.3%, City Builder 12.5%, Economy 12.2%, Building 10.7%, Base Building 10.5%
Why You'll Like It: Build, manage, and automate your colonies through intricate supply chains and crafting networks.
- #17 Airport CEO
86% matchVery Positive83% of 8,359 reviews2021
Dev: Apog Labs
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 27.1 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Build and manage an international airport!
Why similar: Automation 14.8%, Resource Management 11.4%, Economy 11.1%, Management 10.3%, Building 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: Design and manage a major international airport, handling staff, infrastructure, and financial logistics.
- #18 One Military Camp
85% matchMostly Positive76% of 742 reviews2023
Dev: Abylight BarcelonaPub: Abylight Studios
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Build your own military camp, manage the economy, recruit the best candidates and train them to become elite specialists. Send them on missions across the land to end the war once and for all!
Why similar: Economy 12.9%, Base Building 12.9%, City Builder 12.2%, Building 10.4%, Management 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: Build and manage a personalized military training camp with a strong emphasis on logistics and layout.
- #19 Mad Games Tycoon
84% matchVery Positive91% of 4,423 reviews2016
Dev: Eggcode
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 20.3 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Form your own game studio set in the early 1980s in a small garage. Develop your own game ideas, create a team and develop megahit video games. Research new technologies, train your staff and upgrade your office space, going from a lowly garage to a huge building. Expand your business and dominate the world market for video games!
Why similar: Management 16.8%, Economy 15.1%, Base Building 12.2%, Building 11.3%, Resource Management 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: Found a game development studio and manage everything from office space to development cycles.
- #20 Power to the People
84% matchVery Positive81% of 557 reviews2022
Dev: Rhombico GamesPub: Crytivo
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Build and maintain a power grid for a constantly growing population, while fighting off all kinds of disasters in this thrilling resource management experience. It's time for you to give "Power to the People"! Do you have what it takes to keep the lights on?
Why similar: Economy 16.5%, City Builder 13.6%, Building 13.2%, Management 13%, Resource Management 11.5%
Why You'll Like It: Design and maintain power grids for various cities while balancing budgets and resource demands.
- #21 Big Ambitions
80% matchVery Positive92% of 14,788 reviews2026
Dev: Hovgaard Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 11.4 hrsMean: 25.9 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Big Ambitions is a revolutionary role-playing business sim. Go from nothing to the biggest entrepreneur in New York by opening small businesses or slowly building huge corporations any way you like.
Why similar: Economy 31.4%, Management 29.4%, Sandbox 12%, Resource Management 11.1%, Simulation 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: Build your own business empire from small shops to massive corporations in a realistic sandbox city.
- #22 SimAirport
83% matchMostly Positive79% of 4,050 reviews2020
Dev: LVGameDev LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 21.4 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Build & Manage Your Airport. An International Hub or a Regional Masterpiece -- it's up to you. Buy more land to scale out, or escalators to scale up with MULTIPLE FLOORS. You're in full control in this modern business management tycoon!
Why similar: Economy 16.4%, Base Building 15.4%, City Builder 15.3%, Building 13.1%, Management 12.3%
Why You'll Like It: Build, design, and manage every operational aspect of a modern commercial airport.
- #23 Synergy
81% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,098 reviews2025
Dev: Leikir StudioPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 55%
An ecosystem City Builder in a unique world. Build your settlement, manage your workers and optimize your resources. Analyzing your environment, spreading new plants, and harvesting them are key to prosperity.
Why similar: Economy 14%, City Builder 12.5%, Base Building 11.2%, Building 10.1%, Resource Management 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: Build a city in a harsh alien environment while carefully managing limited resources and population needs.
- #24 Supermarket Simulator
79% matchVery Positive92% of 84,255 reviews2025
Dev: Nokta Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 35.0 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Run your own supermarket! Stock shelves, set your prices, take payments, hire staff, expand your store, handle shoplifters, and design your layout. Purchase goods from online or local markets around town, and personally deliver online orders to your customers.
Why similar: Economy 24.2%, Management 20.1%, Simulation 12.9%, Multiplayer 11.9%, Building 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: Design, stock, and manage your own retail supermarket to maximize profit and customer satisfaction.
- #25 Per Aspera
82% matchMostly Positive76% of 5,783 reviews2020
Dev: Tlön IndustriesPub: Raw Fury
Windows
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 12.0 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Make Mars your own! Take control of the world’s most sophisticated AI (AMI) and terraform the surface of the Red Planet for a city-building experience on a planetary scale. Transform this barren world into a lush paradise and explore the surface for any ancient secrets that may be waiting.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 13.9%, Automation 13.9%, Base Building 10.3%, City Builder 9.9%, Building 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: Engage in planetary simulation and resource management to terraform Mars.
- #26 Common'hood
82% matchMixed51% of 342 reviews2022
Dev: Plethora Project
Windows
Common’hood is a community building and economy management game with highly customizable base building tools. Scavenge for materials, grow your own food, research new technology, craft new tools, build a home, make friends. Form your community and take it from surviving to thriving!
Why similar: Base Building 13.4%, Building 12.4%, Automation 11%, Economy 9.9%, Management 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: Rebuild a community from the ground up through base building, resource management, and economic survival.
- #27 Alchemy Factory
77% matchVery Positive88% of 2,896 reviews2026
Dev: D5 CopperheadPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 8.3 hrsMean: 23.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Start small, team up with friends, and automate production with conveyor belts, pipes, and magical devices. Stock your shop with potions, jewelry, and relics, complete commissions, and build an alchemy empire! Alchemy Factory 1.0 is out now with the Wagon Logistics System and revamped shopkeeping.
Why similar: Automation 24.4%, Building 11.8%, Base Building 11.7%, Sandbox 10.5%, Crafting 7.3%
- #28 Gunsmith
81% matchMostly Positive72% of 1,058 reviews2018
Dev: SCT
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 19.3 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Build up your own arms manufacturing company. Find your factory, buy resources, produce a wide range of military equipment to sell to the highest bidder. Good or bad? That's up to you, who you do business with is your choice. Don't ask, don't tell, get paid. After all, war is about making money.
Why similar: Base Building 17.7%, Management 15%, Automation 13.9%, Resource Management 13.3%, Crafting 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: Manage a historical workshop and oversee the complex manufacturing of firearms.
- #29 Railway Empire
79% matchVery Positive83% of 9,734 reviews2018
Dev: Gaming Minds StudiosPub: Kalypso Media
Windows · Linux
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 12.4 hrs≥1hr: 89%
In Railway Empire, you will create an elaborate and wide-ranging rail network, purchase over 40 different trains modelled in extraordinary detail, and buy or build railway stations, maintenance buildings, factories and tourist attractions to keep your travel network ahead of the competition.
Why similar: Economy 19.4%, Management 17.5%, Building 13.6%, Strategy 10.4%, City Builder 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: Establish a sprawling railway network and manage complex economic routes across historical regions.
- #30 Let's Build a Zoo
78% matchVery Positive89% of 4,118 reviews2021
Dev: SpringloadedPub: No More Robots
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 13.0 hrs≥1hr: 81%
It's time to Build a Zoo! Construct and decorate enclosures, buy and breed animals, hire zookeepers and vets... then try your hand at DNA splicing, and stitch together over 300,000 different types of animal. This can only go smoothly...
Why similar: City Builder 18.5%, Management 15.5%, Building 14.4%, Sandbox 14.3%, Economy 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: Construct and manage your own zoo, dealing with animal breeding, employee management, and guest satisfaction.
- #31 Microtopia
77% matchVery Positive87% of 977 reviews2025
Dev: Cordyceps CollectivePub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 10.6 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Become the hive mind of a robot ant colony in Microtopia! Use pheromone trails to create, automate and optimize supply chains for your ants to follow. Collect resources, produce goods, feed your queen, grow your colony and fly out to expand the species!
Why similar: Automation 16.7%, Base Building 11.5%, City Builder 11%, Robots 10.2%, Resource Management 9.7%
- #32 Modulus: Factory Automation
76% matchVery Positive91% of 869 reviews2026
Dev: Happy VolcanoPub: Kwalee
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 14.2 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Build, automate, & optimize production lines across sky islands with real spatial constraints. Every production line is an open-ended puzzle: which operators to use, how to route your belts and how to fit your factory into the landscape. Your solutions, like your factories, are uniquely your own.
Why similar: Automation 18.3%, Base Building 11.9%, Building 11.4%, City Builder 9.9%, Management 9.6%
- #33 Two Point Hospital
78% matchVery Positive92% of 35,001 reviews2018
Dev: Two Point StudiosPub: SEGA
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 35.4 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Design stunning hospitals, cure peculiar illnesses and manage troublesome staff as you spread your budding healthcare organisation across Two Point County.
Why similar: Management 29.1%, Building 25.3%, Simulation 14.7%, Sandbox 11.2%, City Builder 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: Design, build, and manage a quirky healthcare empire with a focus on staff and facility management.
- #34 Outworld Station
76% matchVery Positive85% of 859 reviews2026
Dev: Trickjump Games Ltd
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 10.5 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Take the helm as a new Station Commander and exploit an alien star system in this stunning space-station factory automation game. Amass resources and construct starships using increasingly advanced manufacturing and expand your station in a hostile universe.
Why similar: Automation 19.8%, Base Building 14.1%, Co-op 9.4%, Sandbox 9%, Management 8.9%
- #35 Mad Smartphone Tycoon
75% matchMostly Positive71% of 662 reviews2024
Dev: MiradilPub: Gamersky Games
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Build Your smartphone Empire in Mad Smartphone Tycoon, your main goal in this game is to create the ultimate smartphone that combines both performance and aesthetics. Expand your company, dominate the global market, become a tycoon in the world of mobile phones!
Why similar: Management 17.5%, Building 13.7%, Sandbox 11.3%, City Builder 10.1%, Economy 9.8%
- #36 shapez 2 - Factory
70% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 15,399 reviews2026
Dev: tobspr Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 29.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Dive into a factory-building game with the focus on just that – building huge space factories! Design sprawling multi-level factories and satisfying production lines without limits. Tackle progressively challenging automation goals at your own pace, without the threat of enemies.
Why similar: Automation 24.1%, Management 13.7%, Base Building 12.9%, Building 12.4%, Sandbox 10.5%
- #37 City Bus Manager
72% matchVery Positive91% of 2,878 reviews2024
Dev: PeDePe GbRPub: Aerosoft GmbH
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 39.0 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Build your own bus depot from scratch and create your personal bus routes in City Bus Manager. Play in your own hometown or any famous city in the world with real map data. Buy buses, maintain them, take care of your staff and lead your bus company to become the #1 in town!
Why similar: Economy 28.8%, Management 22.2%, Sandbox 13.1%, Logic 12.7%, Simulation 11.4%
- #38 Indoorlands
74% matchVery Positive81% of 279 reviews2022
Dev: Pixelsplit
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 81%
The indoor park management simulator where you can create your rides and coasters from scratch and freely design your halls. Manage, expand and develop your own park to inspire your guests. Satisfy your visitors' needs by unlocking and researching new buildings, rides, transportation and more!
Why similar: Building 15.5%, Management 14.9%, Resource Management 12.7%, City Builder 11.5%, Isometric 10.8%
- #39 Mad Games Tycoon 2
72% matchVery Positive94% of 7,827 reviews2023
Dev: Eggcode
Windows · Mac
Median: 15.1 hrsMean: 37.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Start your own game development studio in 1976. Build your own offices, production facilities and server rooms. Develop the games of your dreams and produce the next next-gen console. Rise from a small garage company to a huge corporation.
Why similar: Economy 19.2%, Management 16.6%, City Builder 12.3%, Base Building 11.1%, Building 11%
- #40 Factorio
71% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 235,209 reviews2020
Dev: Wube Software LTD.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 44.9 hrsMean: 193.9 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.
Why similar: Automation 25.4%, Base Building 17.1%, Resource Management 11.9%, Sandbox 9.3%, Crafting 6.7%
- #41 Blueprint Tycoon
75% matchVery Positive82% of 1,097 reviews2016
Dev: Endless Loop Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Build your settlement, gather goods, ensure maximum efficiency and make a profit!
Why similar: Management 24.9%, Economy 16.5%, City Builder 15.7%, Resource Management 15.2%, Sandbox 10.4%
- #42 Another Brick in The Mall
73% matchVery Positive83% of 2,456 reviews2020
Dev: The Quadsphere
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 12.7 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Design, build and manage a giant shopping center. Open shops, supermarkets, restaurants, movie theaters, bowling alleys and more. Hire and manage the best staff for the job and milk your customers for all they're worth!
Why similar: Automation 22.7%, Management 15.1%, Building 13.5%, Economy 11.9%, City Builder 10.9%
- #43 Big Pharma
74% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,939 reviews2015
Dev: Twice CircledPub: Positech Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 9.5 hrs≥1hr: 85%
What if you had it in your power to rid the world of disease, to improve the lives of millions, to ease suffering and cure the sick… and earn a tidy profit? As the head of your own Pharmaceutical Conglomerate you have this power resting in your hands. Will you use it for good?
Why similar: Automation 17.8%, Management 16.1%, Economy 12.8%, Base Building 10%, Resource Management 8.4%
- #44 Industry Giant 4.0
73% matchMostly Negative36% of 568 reviews2025
Dev: Don VS DodoPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Build an industrial empire from scratch in Industry Giant 4.0. Produce goods, build up your industries, construct transportation networks, plan production, manage finances, and navigate global events. Become the next business tycoon and write history!
Why similar: Automation 16.2%, Economy 13.3%, City Builder 12.2%, Management 11.9%, Resource Management 10.2%
- #45 Sim Companies
71% matchMostly Positive80% of 1,110 reviews2023
Dev: Sim Companies s.r.o.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 86.7 hrs≥1hr: 49%
Build a business empire in a player-driven online economy. Manage supply chains, trade with thousands of players, dominate markets, research new products, and grow from a small startup into a global corporation.
Why similar: Economy 20.1%, Building 13.2%, Management 13%, Sandbox 12.1%, Isometric 9.2%
- #46 Hardware Store Simulator
70% matchMostly Positive75% of 53 reviews2025
Dev: Stellar Fusion StudiosPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Compete with up to 4 players to build the most successful hardware store! Design your shop, manage inventory, hire employees, and influence market prices in this detailed business simulator. Master retail management as you expand your store empire.
Why similar: Economy 12.3%, Base Building 11.2%, Online Co-Op 10.3%, Building 10%, Management 9.6%
- #47 Havendock
69% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,964 reviews2025
Dev: YYZ StudioPub: Pretty Soon
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 12.5 hrs≥1hr: 67%
Breathe easy and thrive in this cozy colony sim. Build a haven for castaways, manage resources, live your best life on the ocean. Lead your humble settlement into a high-tech society.
Why similar: Automation 16%, Base Building 11.7%, City Builder 11.6%, Building 10.2%, Sandbox 9.4%
- #48 Storage Guys
71% matchMixed41% of 88 reviews2025
Dev: Raynmakyr
Windows
Team up with friends and run your own storage! Receive, store and ship items to make a profit. Handle everything from boxes to hazardous goods. Design and expand your warehouse, manage workers and drivers, and keep supplies fully stocked.
Why similar: Automation 16.1%, Economy 13.4%, Management 11.9%, Resource Management 11.8%, Building 11.3%
- #49 Industry Idle
69% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,488 reviews2024
Dev: FishPondPub: Fish Pond Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 27.6 hrs≥1hr: 61%
Industry Idle is an idle game that combines factory building, resource management and market trading. Design & build your base, expand & scale up your productions, improve & optimize your economy. Plus all the incremental game goodies: offline earnings, prestige to unlock more powerful upgrades.
Why similar: Automation 18.3%, Base Building 12.6%, Economy 10.9%, Resource Management 10.6%, City Builder 10.3%
- #50 Laysara: Summit Kingdom
67% matchVery Positive82% of 1,491 reviews2026
Dev: Quite OK GamesPub: Future Friends Games
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Build and expand your very own settlements in high mountains! Carefully plan production chains and satisfy various needs of your three-caste society while dealing with mountain hazards such as weather breakdowns and avalanches. Are you skilled enough to make your town thrive?
Why similar: Automation 14.8%, City Builder 14%, Base Building 12.2%, Building 11.2%, Economy 10.9%
- #51 shapez
68% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 15,968 reviews2020
Dev: Tobias SpringerPub: tobspr Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 14.6 hrs≥1hr: 65%
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
Why similar: Automation 24.2%, Base Building 15.4%, Resource Management 12.1%, Sandbox 11.2%, Building 8.6%
- #52 Microtopia: Prologue
68% matchVery Positive95% of 132 reviews2024
Dev: Cordyceps CollectivePub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Become the hive mind of a robot ant colony in this free version of Microtopia! Use pheromone trails to create, automate and optimize supply chains for your ants to follow. Collect resources, produce goods, feed your queen, grow your colony and fly out to expand the species!
Why similar: Automation 18%, Base Building 13%, City Builder 10.6%, Building 10.4%, Resource Management 10.3%
- #53 Smart Factory Tycoon: Beginnings
70% matchMostly Positive77% of 506 reviews2022
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 24 minMean: 2.1 hrs≥1hr: 20%
This is a free version of Smart Factory Tycoon, a game inspired by Little Big Workshop introducing the first productions. Smart Factory Tycoon is a tycoon management game where you design your dream factory with robots, plan all steps of production, research new technologies and become a tycoon!
Why similar: Resource Management 15.1%, Management 14.5%, City Builder 9.8%, Sandbox 8.5%, Building 8.2%
- #54 Factory Engineer
73% matchMixed45% of 134 reviews2017
Dev: Mind Leak
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Factory Engineer is a factory simulation game which is about creating a huge automated factory by building production lines to create products and make money. Start with simple products,make money,unlock technologies then create the most sophisticated products.
Why similar: Building 15.5%, Automation 15.1%, Sandbox 14%, Base Building 12.9%, Resource Management 9.9%
- #55 Incremental Factory
69% matchMixed67% of 249 reviews2024
Dev: Significant Steak
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Craft and automate an industrial empire from scratch! Experience a strategic game teeming with challenges as you manage resources, overcome hurdles, and optimize production chains. Are you ready to conquer the challenges of Incremental Factory? Your journey starts here... The Factory Must Grow!
Why similar: Automation 22.9%, Resource Management 12.9%, Economy 11.6%, Sandbox 10%, Building 9.9%
- #56 Masterplan Tycoon
68% matchMostly Positive74% of 747 reviews2023
Dev: Bureau BravinPub: Ravenage Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Welcome to the resource management game where your creativity and logistics skills are put to the test! In this minimalistic simulation you will build interconnected chains of products and open new missions by completing various tasks to create the biggest system you can.
Why similar: Automation 19.9%, Economy 14.3%, Building 14%, Resource Management 13.4%, Management 12.7%
- #57 Block Factory
67% matchMostly Positive77% of 266 reviews2025
Dev: OverPowered TeamPub: Shiro Unlimited
Windows
Block Factory is a relaxing and creative building game where you craft delightful 3D figurines from blocks. Shape your designs and build flowing production lines in a peaceful factory world.
Why similar: Automation 17.7%, Base Building 11.6%, Building 10.9%, Management 10.1%, Sandbox 9.5%
- #58 Highrise City
67% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,303 reviews2023
Dev: Fourexo EntertainmentPub: Deck13
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 13.0 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Highrise City offers a new spin on City Simulations & Tycoon games expanding the economy and resource management aspect. Experience a modern take on the genre enriched with a complex resource based economy system.
Why similar: City Builder 21.7%, Sandbox 15.1%, Economy 15%, Building 13.9%, Management 9.7%
- #59 Desynced
64% matchMostly Positive80% of 2,067 reviews2026
Dev: Stage Games Inc.Pub: Forklift Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 18.9 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Desynced is a sci-fi strategy game with fully customizable units and behaviors. Gather, build, research, and explore the unknown. Alone or with friends, unveil the mystery of an AI on the edge of self-awareness and uncover the hidden truth in this blend of strategy, automation, and exploration.
Why similar: Automation 16.6%, Base Building 12.1%, City Builder 11%, Building 9.3%, Sandbox 9.1%
- #60 Blacksmith Master
64% matchVery Positive84% of 2,773 reviews2025
Dev: Untitled StudioPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 12.7 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Manage your own medieval smithy in Blacksmith Master and supervise the entire process from mining ores and gems to designing and selling finished products. Forge everything from weapons and armor to tools and cooking utensils to fund your craft and become the Blacksmith Master.
Why similar: Economy 14.6%, Base Building 14.5%, City Builder 14%, Building 12.3%, Resource Management 11.3%